(CNN) --A silver coin found in Maryland after almost 400 years provided a big clue for archaeologists searching for St. Mary's Fort -- one of the earliest English settlements in the New World. The ...

What made this encounter truly extraordinary was Samoset's command of the English language. He had learned to speak English from fishermen who worked the waters off Monhegan Island in the Gulf of ...

Crow Wing County residents may not know about James McGill, but the English fur trader helped settle the area 250 years ago. McGill is the first documented English fur trader to winter in central ...

September 26th is a notable day for one Connecticut town, that prides itself in being first. The town of Windsor, located just north of Hartford, was home to the first English settlement in the entire ...

HINGHAM – Always seeking a new way to look at the past, the Hingham Historical Society has come up with an innovative approach to understanding the Indigenous people who first inhabited coastal New ...

A hundred-plus Englishmen debark from three ships and set up housekeeping on the swampy shores of the James River. This year's 400th anniversary celebrations honor that event as the beginning of this ...

The first English settlers in North America ate indigenous dogs to survive during an intense period of starvation, archaeologists have discovered. Researchers uncovered the remains of six dogs of ...

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—The English settlers, when they emigrated to Ulster, carried with them the language of the seventeenth century. If we reflect for a moment, we shall see that it was the pronunciation of the time of ...